Author: Gary Bentley

Before President Obama took office, GOP leaders told us that deficits don’t matter. But now that a Democrat is in the White House, they can’t seem to quit whining about our budget deficit. But the truth is that they were actually right when they said deficits don’t matter. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio talks to economist Dean Baker to find out why. Connect with Dean Baker on Twitter and review more of his work at the Center for Economic and Policy...

The following interview is from the April 28th, 2013 episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. The time is up for Americans to submit their comments to the state department on the Keystone XL pipeline, and soon we’ll have a decision from the administration on whether or not this pipeline will be constructed. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio talks about how disastrous the Keystone XL pipeline would be with Farron Cousins, the executive editor of The Trial Lawyer Magazine and a contributing writer for DeSmogBlog.com. Connect with Farron Cousins on Twitter and read his blog posts on...

Thanks to a lack of prosecutions from our Justice Department and a completely Wall Street-owned Congress, financial reform has come to a complete halt in America. The Obama administration’s talking head people, like Mary Miller, are constantly backing away from reform. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio talks to investigative journalist David Dayen about why the concept of finance reform has...

The following interview is from the April 28th, 2013 episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. The former Bush administration launched a war that most of the media ignored – and that was the war on whistleblowers in the administration. Unfortunately, President Obama has continued that tradition. The Obama administration has spent more time and resources going after whistleblowers than they have Wall Street criminals. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio talks to attorneys Howard Nations and Dave Teselle about the continued assault on government...

The following interview is from the April 28th, 2013 episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV (http://www.freespeech.org/ringoffire). The Obama Administration might be stifling whistleblowers in the federal government, but over in the private sector, whistleblowers are serving an important role in exposing fraud. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio talks about the latest example of corporate wrongdoing that whistleblowers exposed with attorney Chris...